In what had to be the most obvious choice of this year’s trophy-presenting season, Dodgers left-hander Clayton Kershaw was named Cy Young Award winner for the National League on Wednesday evening. Kershaw beat out fellow finalists Adam Wainwright of the Cardinals and Jose Fernandez of the Marlins in a nearly unanimous vote by members of the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

Kershaw got 29 of a possible 30 first-place votes. The other first-place vote went to Wainwright, the runner-up, who also got 15 second-place votes and four third-place votes. Fernandez received nine second-place votes and three third-place votes.

Craig Kimbrel of the Braves and Matt Harvey of the Mets finished tied for fourth place.

Kershaw, 25, registered an outstanding 1.83 ERA and 0.92 WHIP in 33 starts this year for the National League West-champion Dodgers, striking out 232 batters and issuing only 52 walks in 236 innings.

This was his second Cy Young Award. He won his first in 2011 and finished second to R.A. Dickey in 2012.

Buchholz, 33, was acquired by the Phillies from the Red Sox in December 2016, but he made only two starts before an MRI revealed he had a partial tear of his right flexor pronator mass. He underwent surgery in April and missed the rest of the season.